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What does conation mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
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Character strengths are viewed as capacities of cognition, conation, affect, and behavior-the psychological ingredients for displaying virtues or human goodness.
The major modification was in the addition of competencies in the domains of affect and conation or volition.
The Prague school is also renowned for its interest in the application of functionalism the study of how elements of a language accomplish cognition, expression, and conation to syntax and the structure of literary texts.
The new body Natural Resources Wales will no doubt be add dressing the impact floodas on land and give conation to our long-term and environmental secureds.
We are not conscious of that which happens between the willing and the endpoint, or action, but when this conation is controlled then the will cannot start the movement.
With all due respect to conation, I split for Bond — James Bond — complete with a video clip of the incumbent spy, the actor Daniel Craig, being tortured.

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